How Tim Cook Gave Android Its Most Lethal Mocking Ever
Apple CEO Tim Cook mocked Android on many fronts. The real game for Apple is denting Android's momentum in China.
By Sadho Ram — 03 Jun 2014, 05:03 PM — Updated about 10 years ago
At WWDC 2014, Apple CEO Tim Cook took on the stage to bash its biggest competitor OS platform - Android
Apple CEO Tim Cook ripped Android to shreds on stage at the company’s big developers’ conference, WWDC. Android is the free operating system distributed by Google and used by most competing mobile phone companies, like Samsung.
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Cook told attendees that 130 million Apple customers who bought one of the company’s products in the last 12 months were first-time Apple buyers
He deadpanned: “Many of these customers were switchers from Android. They had bought an Android phone, by mistake, and then sought a better experience. And a better life. And decided to check out iPhone and iOS.”
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He gave this stat: “Nearly half of our customers in China in past six months switched from Android to iPhone. This is incredible.”
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In fact it’s not that incredible: Apple only began focusing on China recently and most of the Chinese market was previously on Android, so where else were those customers going to come from?
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About 89% of Apple users are on iOS 7. Yet only 9% of Android users are on KitKat, the most recent Android system. "Some are on Android from four years ago — that’s like ancient history!" Cook said.
According to Cook, thanks to free software updates which Apple controls, 89% of iOS users have now updated to the iOS 7 mobile operating system on their devices, which is the latest major version. In comparison, he says, a big percentage of Android customers are still using a version of Android from “four years ago.”
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“Less than 1 out of 10 of their customers are on their latest versions,” Cook said. “That means these customers are not getting great new features. They’re not able to run the latest apps, and they’re not getting security updates they need to stay safe.”
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A pie chart displayed behind Cook – perhaps not checked for accuracy? – noted that Android had 99% of the mobile malware market
What, like nobody tries to hack Blackberry phones anymore?
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Another slide described Android as a "toxic hellstew of vulnerabilities"
If you ever had any doubt about the lack of affection between Cupertino and Mountain View, doubt no more.
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